Mr. Speaker, I am hearing a lot about this from my constituents and I am participating in the debate tonight to reflect some of their views. They have asked me to speak about two points. One relates directly to what the member just raised: How do we ensure that those oral histories that are too often discounted by western democracies and Eurocentric approaches are heard and listened to in an institutional way, in a way that they are constantly validated?
The second is: What role does he feel we need to attach on the accountability side to the churches that were involved with these residential schools, in this case the Catholic church, which stands alone among some of the other Canadian denominations, for not taking full ownership and responsibility for what has taken place?